
Vice President JD Vance has been evading questions about his seemingly inexplicable turn on foreign wars. Apparently, Vance has a “reasonable” explanation for his shift: Trump is the first “smart” president he’s seen in his lifetime.
It hasn’t even been a decade since Vance was making some of the most heinous statements about Trump, even reportedly saying at one point that Trump reminded him of Hitler. But as soon as Trump cozied up to the tech industry, Vance and his mentor, Peter Thiel, found a place within MAGA. Vance has since been championing his evangelist ideology, pushing how Trump’s immigration policy aligns with MAGA.